Sandipto Dasgupta Author

Sandipto Dasgupta is Newton International Fellow of the Royal Society and the British Academy. His research interests include constructing a distinct theory of judicial review through a study of the increased activism and intervention of the judiciary in the realm of social rights and policy in the developing world; analyzing the relationship between social power and political power, and consequently the relationship between democracy and social transformation, by studying the political discourse of land owning farmers; and the intellectual and social history of legal formalism.